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Everyone thinks I should be this craft goddess because I was raised by such a crafty woman. She can sew, knit, crochet, crosstitch, bake. She has been known to hem pants for my friends while they were standing there. She’s insane with that stuff. Living with her should have been like having my own personal home-ec class, right in my house.

But, it was quite the opposite. She was always the one to do all of that, so I really didn’t feel the need to do it until much later in life. To be honest, I never baked a cookie until I got pregnant and got all domesticated. Until then, I would just tell my mom what I wanted and she would make it for me.

I have gotten the hang of baking and now I act all big and bad when I bake at her house, when really, I should be bowing in front of her. She has tried countless times to teach me how to knit and sew, but I never could quite grasp it. I know every time I told her about a new project I was working on, she was always thinking “Great. A new project for me to work on,” and she always obliged.

Hopefully when I take up my new hobby, she won’t have to end up doing it for me. This time? Needlepoint! Because, why not? There were A LOT of needlepoint tutorials and items on Pinterest, but these were my favorites. I’m also including some cool websites I found whilst on my needlepoint journey.